All Entries in the "Diversity" Category
Your breasts or your life!
This post has questions and a few tips on that. I am not a doctor. (Photo Dr. Michele Y. Halyard, Mayo Clinic) I am a cancer conqueror – a term I prefer over survivor. I’m wondering whether women especially Black/African American women are choosing not to be treated, diagnosed, or have a mammogram, change life styles, and do other things to take care of themselves and their bodies out of their fear, family history, cultural beliefs about hospitals, or myths about the Big C… Tips include creative expression and more.
Open source for the mind on Culture & Tribes.
Why should culture be important to you? Because it’s the invisible glue that holds a group of people together – a business, an organization, any group, your family, your online community, etc. Culture is the system of agreements, the experiences, the beliefs, values, attitudes, that are subscribed to, that are bought into. A group so aligned is a “tribe” (aka community). Here’s open source knowledge for the mind – a free audio book on “Tribal Leadership” about organizational culture.
FraserNet CEO Commits $350 Million To Help Black Students Build Their Personal Networks
George C. Fraser, Founder and Chairman of FraserNet, Inc. and the PowerNetworking Conference makes nearly a $350 million dollar commitment to help Black students build their personal support network of relationships. The program is entitled; TheYESNet; The Youth Empowered to Succeed Network. The Network’s goal is to provide 1 million Black students (ages 17-25) with free and easy access to critical contacts and other networking products and services over the next 5 years. A student membership is valued at $349 each, but will be underwritten by FraserNet, and provided free of charge to students 17-25 years old.
Wal-mart – Smarter then Smart
Wal-Mart the worlds largest retailer has done something that conceptually may ease the pain and cost of getting a college education and degree. Wal-Mart to Offer Its Workers a College Program The point of the program, they said, was to help employees get more education and to build a better work force. This move by [...]
Lorena Valencia 2010 Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur
Lorena Valencia, President/CEO, Reliance Wire & Cable is selected as this year’s Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur Award Recipient for her business success and leadership of nonprofit organizations especially The Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council. She is the GCMSDC Council MBEIC Chair and national MBE co-chair of the upcoming National MSDC Convention. Lorena’s motto is [...]
Debbie Paine, First Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Executive Winner
Debbie Paine, Executive Director, Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix is the first Positively Powerful Nonprofit Executive Award Recipient for her vision and programs that bring together art, artists, and businesses as well as her organization’s “Business On Board” program that prepares diverse executives to serve and lead boards of directors. Debbie, mother of Brian, [...]
Angela Curley First Positively Powerful Corporate Woman Winner
The 3rd annual “Positively Powerful Women Celebrate!” Awards Luncheon will be Friday, May 21st at the Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix, Arizona from 11:30AM T0 2PM. The event is open to the public. Tickets are $75. Please join us as we honor three exceptional and diverse women servant leaders Angela Curley, Debbie Paine, and Lorena Valencia. Originally from [...]
“Americans are angry!”
Am I the only one who feels annoyed when someone says they speak for all Americans? The most recent generalized statement I heard was “All Americans are angry.” There was also the one that began “All Americans feel ______” you fill in the blanks. Sojourner Truth said, “Ain’t I a Woman” well today I am [...]
Health: Eat to Live Long, Conquer & Prosper!
Okay I admit it, I thought that I was relatively well-educated. That is until I got breast cancer. Bang! (This post is for you men too.) My ignorance on proper eating was horrific. Maybe you too grew up like I did: loving fried foods, fruits…sometimes, the c-foods for desert always - cakes, candies, cookies, chocolate, pies [...]
Diversity Is Also a Way of Thinking
When we are not open to there being an alternative point of view other then the one we are already committed to believing, we then lack the capacity to truly understand what is in front of us.
